Popular Memorial Pages, 181-200

• Vernon Dahmer Firebombing in Hattiesburg

  Articles and information from The Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell and Beverly Pettigrew Kraft regarding the firebombing of Vernon…

  by historybeat

  Updated 30 Jan 2010 - 90 views this week (12,329 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 24 stories

• The Mexican Revolution

  No one can be said to be more synonymous with the wild side of Mexico than Pancho Villa - the rebel general of the Mexican Revolution who invaded US…

  by bgill

  Updated 19 Jun 2007 - 90 views this week (10,247 total)

  Contributions 17 images, 20 stories

• Joseph Stalin

  Leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for more than three decades, including World War II.

  by jwalgren and others can contribute.

  Updated 22 May 2012 - 89 views this week (15,905 total)

  Contributions 3 images

• Underground Railroad

  Page Two~The American slave trade was an international business. It began in Western Africa, where prisoners were taken for sale to European and American…

  by bgill

  Updated 30 Jul 2007 - 89 views this week (22,977 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 37 stories

• Thomas Paine

  Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, to a father who worked as a corset maker. From his beginnings, it seems unlikely that this boy would one day…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 01 Nov 2011 - 88 views this week (32,925 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Sobibor Extermination Camp

  The Sobibor extermination camp was the second killing center established as part of Operation Reinhard. This operation was the organized killing of all…

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  Updated 02 Oct 2009 - 87 views this week (12,509 total)

  Contributions 3 images

• Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

  Flossenbürg was not what most people think of a typical concentration camp in that only a few Jews were held prisoner in the camp until 1944. Up until…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 02 Oct 2009 - 87 views this week (11,472 total)

  Contributions 5 images, 2 stories

• Lakota~The Massacre at Wounded Knee

  It was the 29th day of the Moon of Popping Trees (December) in 1890. Peace was sleeping within the warm winter wind under the murderous eyes of Gatling…

  by bgill

  Updated 25 Jun 2007 - 87 views this week (11,781 total)

  Contributions 34 images, 37 stories

• Buchenwald

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Updated 20 Nov 2011 - 86 views this week (3,763 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 45 stories

• Women of The American Revolution

  BIOGRAPHIES

  by bgill

  Updated 24 May 2007 - 86 views this week (3,463 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 12 stories

• Kaiserwald Concentration Camp

  The Kaiserwald Concentration Camp was located near the town of Riga in Latvia. Eventually, after the Latvian ghettos had been liquidated, this camp held…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Created 25 Aug 2009 - 86 views this week (8,627 total)

  Contributions 1 image

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place in Illinois from August to October, 1858. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were competing for a seat in the U.S.…

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  Updated 04 Mar 2013 - 86 views this week (17,700 total)

  Contributions 15 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Herzogenbusch Concentration Camp

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  Created 11 Nov 2011 - 85 views this week (2,665 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 20 stories

• Plaszow Concentration Camp

  Plaszow was a forced labor camp for Jews in Krakow, Poland. In 1944, Plaszow became a concentration camp, and at its height of activity, it held nearly…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 18 Jan 2010 - 85 views this week (8,930 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 1 comment

• The Cherokee Indians

  The Cherokee Indians are the largest Native American group in the United States today. This tribe has a unique history, culture and religion that began…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 09 Sep 2012 - 84 views this week (22,509 total)

  Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 7 stories

• US Historic Newspaper Archives

  Footnote.com is becoming a depository of US Historical Newspapers. They are digitizing Newspapers from some of the largest city archives in the United…

  by gorgeriverman

  Updated 16 Sep 2011 - 84 views this week (6,881 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 5 stories

• The Homestead Act, 1862

  The Homestead Act of 1862 was the culmination of decades of work to organize and distribute government lands. Every 160-acre parcel largely went to new…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 18 Jan 2012 - 84 views this week (88,872 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• John Brown (abolitionist)

  Page One~John Brown (May 9, 1800- December 2, 1859) was the first White American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the…

  by bgill

  Updated 16 Jul 2007 - 83 views this week (6,169 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 20 stories

• Civil War Pensions Index

  Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, T289

  by fold3_catalog

  Updated 09 Aug 2012 - 82 views this week (49,280 total)

  Contributions 15 images, 6 comments, 5 stories

• Records of the Massachusetts 54th

  M1659.

  by fold3_catalog

  Created 08 Jul 2012 - 81 views this week (7,571 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 7 stories